06/15/2017

Webcast Follow-up: Creo 4.0 Updates

Thanks for joining our recent webcast, Updates to Creo Parametric 4.0. If you missed the webcast, you can view the recording here.

Rand 3D instructor, Mike Brucker, answered questions that were asked at the end of the webcast, and summarized his responses below. Should you have any additional questions, please send them to: training@rand.com

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Q: ­Any way to turn off all pop ups when you are doing things?­

A: I don’t believe you can disable the yellow notification windows globally. However, some, but not all, of those notification windows will have a checkbox at the bottom to not show that window in the future.

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Q:­Can you have the automatic simplified reps and custom created reps active at the same time?­ ­That is, run generally on automatic, but also have maybe a "No fasteners" defined rep.­

A: You can only have one Simplified Rep active at a time. However, each component within any Simplified Rep can be set to Automatic or Exclude.In this example, we set the top-level assembly to the Automatic representation, selected all the hardware from the tree, and set the hardware to the Exclude representation.

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Q:­When a layer is hidden and it hides the features, does that actually hide the feature in the model tree as if you had hidden the feature itself?­ Hiding in the model tree is no longer independent from the layer functions­

A: The hiding of individual items and the hiding of Layers are still two independent functions. The only change to Creo 4.0 is that the Model Tree will show the hidden items grayed-out regardless if they were hidden individually or belong to a hidden Layer.

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Q: ­Are there any rectangular tubing creation tools? I'm asking this because we usually create a 3D model of tubes to be imported for tube laser programming.­

A: Yes, Creo 4.0 does have a Piping application for creating pipes, tubes, and hoses of any shape.

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Q: ­Can you turn off the Auto Ref. in sketcher mode?­

A: Yes, there’s a configuration option to disable the new automatic selection of sketcher references from model geometry in Creo 4.0. File>Options>Configuration Editor. Set “sketcher_snap_model_geometry” to No.

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Q: ­Showing my age here, but can we have the classic ProE blue graphic back as a selectable option for the backgrounds? ­

A: The old blue background color is not one of the predefined color schemes in Creo4.0, but you can still manually set the background to any color you want. File>Option>System Colors>Graphics>Background.

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Q:­Is there anything different with printing drawings?­

A: Yes, Creo 4.0 has several enhancements to drawings. Many of these are related to creating and displaying Geometric Tolerances and Datums. Here are a couple examples: